Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 20

After a while, as the maid did not come back, and those upstairs were thirsty for the beer, the man said to the boy: ‘Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie and the girl are.’

Who acts: those, man · What happens: not come back, be, say, go down, see · To what, where: cellar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 maid	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maid	det
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thirsty	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thirsty	cc
14	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 thirsty	nsubj
15	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	14 those	advmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thirsty	cop
17	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 come	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 beer	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beer	det
20	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thirsty	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 boy	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
30	Just	just	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 cellar	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cellar	det
35	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 see	cc
37	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 go	conj
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 see	ccomp
39	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 where	appos
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 girl	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 girl	det
42	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Elsie	conj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 where	cop
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past · do-support			while	as the maid	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	those			for the beer; thirsty property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the man			to the boy	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to boy=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	go down	infinitive		the cellar		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present				where property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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